Benefits of Using a Learning Management System to Promote Continuous Learning
Continuous learning is more than a workplace fad. While treadmill desks, sleep pods, and bean bag chairs are questionable at best, continuous learning is proven to promote a positive shift in workplace culture. By encouraging individuals to expand and improve their professional skills, companies can cultivate not only better employees, but happier ones. What if […]
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Seven Reasons Why You Need a Learning Management System
A Learning Management System (LMS) is more than just a collection of powerpoints or training booklets in three-ring binders. Digital training modules, skills assessments, and integrated reporting streamline the employee training process, whether you’re virtually onboarding new hires or further developing the management skills of supervisors. Conventional in-person training requires the constant presence of an […]
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How Your Company Can Encourage Voter Participation and Manage Election Day in the Workplace
Whether on the local or national stage, political elections happen every year. But only every four years, does a Presidential election take center stage—and each election cycle seemingly grows more imperative and divisive. With all of the current issues at the forefront of employees’ minds, it is crucial for businesses and HR professionals to know […]
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Netchex Receives Multiple Awards Praising Ease of Use, Customer Service, and COVID Response
2020 has been a year marked by near continual uncertainty and change. Through it all, Netchex has remained fully operational and hard at work for businesses that are also working to remain open, adapt their policies, and ensure the safety of their employees. We were able to accomplish this thanks in large part to two […]
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What Is ‘Windowed Work’ and Why It Could Be the Key to Your Remote Work Success
The 9-to-5 workday may now be a thing of the past—and good riddance! It’s time for businesses to really adjust to the fact that your remote employees aren’t working nonstop during so-called normal business hours. Fortunately, “windowed work” can boost productivity and the quality of work performed by remote employees. What is ‘windowed work’? Instead […]
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It’s National Payroll Week! Here’s How You Can Participate
Just about everyone would say that payroll is important because it is how people get paid. But few people are aware of all the additional things that are made possible through the actions of the payroll industry. Most notably, through payroll withholding, the industry contributes, collects, reports, and deposits 70% of the U.S. Treasury’s annual […]
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What Employers and Employees Need to Know About the Payroll Tax Deferral
There has been a great deal of uncertainty in recent weeks surrounding President Trump’s Memorandum on payroll taxes issued earlier this month (on August 8). Meant as economic relief during COVID-19, the Memorandum allows employers to defer withholding, deposit, and payment of the employee’s portion of the Social Security tax (6.2%) through the end of […]
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Zoom Gloom: Seven Tips for Combating Virtual Meeting Fatigue
Back when everyone first started working from home because of COVID-19, the Internet proclaimed, “Now we’ll finally see which meetings could have been emails!” Months later, some telecommuters might now find the joke a lot less funny. As workers and managers have increasingly collaborated online instead of in-person, meetings may have actually become more frequent. […]
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6 Effective Tips for Managing Underperforming Employees
The American workforce has undergone a seismic shift in the past few years. When it comes to performance, underperforming employees present a special challenge. How can HR and managers address and improve the work of underperforming employees with Performance Management software? Communicate regularly The first thing to assess is the frequency of your communication. For […]
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7 Essential Steps to Starting a Successful Workplace Giving Program
A workplace giving program can yield measurable ROI—reducing turnover rates and even increasing revenues—but some of the biggest advantages are less concrete: generating daily enthusiasm and rallying the company around a common cause. While addressing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) creates branding and sales opportunities for the company down the line, the most successful programs reflect […]
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Back to Business: What is Contact Tracing and How Can Your Company Participate?
With states and businesses beginning to reopen, the fear of a second outbreak looms heavy over the proceedings. As businesses develop return to work plans, one of the biggest components is anticipating and addressing employees’ return to work concerns, including many lingering health and safety concerns. One way officials and experts are hoping to combat […]
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Minimizing the Loneliness and Burnout Associated with Long-Term Remote Work
Remote work has been on a slow and steady rise in recent years, but the recent pandemic pushed the movement to the forefront of workplace conversations and forced the hand of previously resistant CEOs everywhere. The question has now shifted from is remote work doable to how to make it sustainable. Employees appreciate the freedom […]
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